rbs to the category of the emotional ones. It is Interesting to note that no even one of the dictionaries, describing the meaning of the verbs to amuse and to entertain, gives the word emotion as such, but the presence of the component joy, happiness, revelry (purely emotional features) allows us to fix the presence of the component to affect the emotions in these verbs as well.general component for four from five considered verbs a was the following: to engage and keep the attention. According to the investigations, this element in miscellaneous degrees is expressed in the meanings of the analyzed words in the following number: for to amuse it is fixed in 14, for to entertain - 11, for to grip - 19, for to interest - in 25 dictionaries. The component of meaning of the verb to excite is met in four from five verbs, that puts the verb to trill in somewhat specific position. The other components are of purely specific character.conclusion, we may say that the verb, as no other part of speech, has a broad set of differential features, vastly complicating the semantics of it.the meaning of a verb there might be a denotation to the specifying of the denoted actions, to the conditions of persons, subjects, ways, types of the action, correlations to its communicators, modality of the content assignment of the utterance, time of the speech act, etc., we say that two words are synonymous if substituting one for the other in all contexts does not change the truth value of the sentence where the substitution is made. Synonymy dictionaries include something that native speakers have very clear intuitions about. They have the intuition that a number of words may express the same idea.: You can find `kill« as a synonym of `murder», and `strong« as a synonym of `powerful», but not the other way round: you say they A and B are synonymous because they express the same object, you expect also that if A is synonymous of B, B is also synonymous of A. but this isn «t reflected in dictionaries. If A is a synonym of B and B is a synonym of A, these are true or absolute synonyms. They are interchangeable. But there are no absolute synonyms, it »s an intellectual creation. Native speakers feel that some pairs of synonyms are more synonymous than others. This gives us the idea of ??a scale of synonymy. Obviously, the idea behind synonymy is that of sharing meaning that is that two words share (part of) their meaning. It has become a problem to establish how much overlapping do we need for two words for being considered synonyms.: Truthful: honest they are synonyms although they share only part of their meaning; truthful: purple they are not at all synonyms .. Cruse says that an important thing here is contrast. When a speaker uses them indistinctively, he emphasizes their similarities not their differences.: Kill: murder they share part of their meaninggreater the number of features two words share, the more synonyms they are.and B share almost all of their meaning components.:- creature animal dog + Alsatian philosophy tree cat Spaniel. « and `Spaniel» share more atoms of meaning than creature « and `philosophy» but they are not synonyms. So this claim is wrong, because we need two things for synonymy: we need overlapping of meaning and, at the same time, the two words do not have to be contrastive.says that synonyms must not only share high degree of semantic overlapping but also a low degree of implicit contractiveness. So, a high...
